Project
Concept of Park Development in the Aviation Town
Category
Best Project of Public Space by Student
About the project (provided by the applicant)
The development of a park complex on the territory of the Aviation Town is one of the key tasks of the Government of the Saratov Region. Today this territory is abandoned. The great history of the unique closed Engels-1 air base town is fading away, as there is no one to maintain and develop it. Residents strive to revive the town, offering diverse ideas. Many buildings are in disrepair and have already been demolished. In their place, we decided to design a large park in Engels — “Lyotka.”
The main idea is to revive the history of the town and show how the air base employees and cadets of the flight school lived. We preserved monuments, streets, and even the foundations of demolished buildings, thus creating a memorial layer. We also added a variety of plants and collaborated with the church to plant 67 birches in memory of 67 fallen pilots — all of this forming a new “forest” green framework of the park.
The project contains many references to aviation, which makes our park an open-air encyclopedia.
Location
Engels, Saratov Region, Russia
Project design year
2024
Extra visual materials
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tc4Ka4A6wG_AKLYy41Ek84gxfVip3SXm?usp=sharing
Applicants
Arseniy Ezhov, Varvara Kudashova, Elizaveta Kalinina
SHEPKA is a young architectural team that wins competitions and designs with beauty, turning the history of a place into its potential. Its members are 2nd, 3rd, and 5th year students of the Architecture Department at Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov.
Supervisors: Alexey Selivanov, Tatyana Negulyaeva.
Authors of the project
Arseniy Ezhov, Varvara Kudashova, Elizaveta Kalinina
Visualization
Arseniy Ezhov, Varvara Kudashova, Elizaveta Kalinina
Status of the project
Conceptual design
